America, meet the new Republican Party. It was unveiled in the all-important presidential primary state of New Hampshire at this weekend`s Freedom Summit sponsored by Citizens United and the Koch brothers, Americans for Prosperity. It sounds totally new and different already.

Rand Paul used his speech to put Republicans on the couch, to point out their failures, and to outline a new Republican agenda based on bold action and the Bill of Rights. But no, really, there was actually a lot about GOP failures on taxes, on the debt, and on defending amendments other than the second one.

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PAUL: You go to Washington and what passes for bold is, oh, we`re for revenue neutral tax reform. I, frankly, don`t care. If that`s what you`re for, I`ll go back to Bowling Green, Kentucky, and be an eye surgeon but I want nothing to do with the timidity of revenue neutral tax reform.

Some say, well, we can defend the Second Amendment but let`s just ignore the Fourth Amendment. Or let`s defend the Second Amendment but not that First Amendment, that`s not for conservatives. Hogwash.

Some would say that you can have freedom and yet have indefinite detention of American citizens. That you can have freedom and not have the right to the trial by jury by everyone.

I had this debate with one of the other senators. He happens to be a Republican senator. And I said, my goodness, you`re going to take an American citizen and send them to Guantanamo Bay without a trial? And they said, yes, if they are dangerous.

And I said, sort of begs the question, doesn`t it, who gets to decide who is dangerous and who is not?

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WAGNER: But wait, rand Paul is not finished. Republicans have also failed in lots of other ways, like in their support of corporate welfare and in fat cats.

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PAUL: Some will say we don`t have enough for welfare and for entitlements but we`ve got plenty of money to bailout and give corporate welfare. Hogwash. We shouldn`t be sending one penny to rich companies. We send -- we send $20 billion a year in direct subsidies to companies. Corporate welfare should once and for all be ended.

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The top 100 companies in our country average $200 million a piece. And you`ve got Republicans in Washington saying, oh, the XM bank, we`ve got to be for that.

Rich companies don`t need your money. And it`s an insult to those among us who say we don`t have enough money for these other programs but we`ve got enough money for our rich friends.

If we want to be consistent, if you want to grow the movement, we cannot be the party of fat cats, rich people and Wall Street.

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WAGNER: Nope. Rand Paul is still not done. Republicans have also failed in showing empathy towards less fortunate Americans.

There are members of our movement who have all suffered, who have all had those problems, but we have to show concern for people out of work.

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WAGNER: And how would Rand Paul make actionable this empathy, this concern for people who have had a tough time and are out of work? What bold, new policy did Rand Paul propose at the Citizens United for Prosperity Freedom Summit to create jobs and help the unemployed?

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PAUL: More unemployment insurance, frankly, I think they`d rather have a job.

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When is the last time in our country we created millions of jobs? It was under Ronald Reagan. What did Ronald Reagan do? He set forthrightly, let`s cut everyone`s taxes. He did dramatically.

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WAGNER: Joining me now, Krystal Ball, co-host of MSNBC`s "THE CYCLE", and Nia-Malika Henderson, political reporter for "The Washington Post".

Krystal, the eye surgeon from Bowling Green, Kentucky, has a big new idea for the Republican Party and that big idea appears to be the very same old idea.

KRYSTAL BALL, THE CYCLE: Wait for it.

WAGNER: Wait for it.

BALL: Reagan. Tax cuts.

WAGNER: Yes! It`s fairly unbelievable that he teased everything up and then lands in the same place that Republicans always end.

BALL: Yes, this is -- this is all they have.

I mean, kudos to Rand Paul, he really does talk the talk and I appreciate what he says about the injustice of the criminal justice system and that`s an area where he has been different from the Republican Party and has moved that party and been a thought leader there.

On the economy, though, all of the rhetoric about wanting to end the subsidies and not be the party of the corporate fat cats, what about when it comes to cutting regulations on businesses and imposing a tax on taxpayers through cutting too much regulation and giving these business as free pass? I would bet that he`d be singing a very different and very standard Republican tune in that area.

WAGNER: Yes, Nia -- I mean, Krystal brings up an important point. There was polite applause. Yes, we don`t want to be the party of fat cats but if it actually came down to putting a piece of policy on the table, I doubt that members of the House Republican Conference or even Senate Republican Conference would have as much enthusiasm, applause or no. Your thoughts?

NIA-MALIKA HENDERSON, THE WASHINGTON POST: No. I think that`s right. I think rand Paul is trying to figure out a new way to talk as a Republican and highlight some of the things you mentioned there in terms of the criminal justice, black and brown people being disproportionately affected by drug sentencing.

But when it comes down to it, he`s sort of working in sort of the same toolbox, right, and also has to figure out a new Republican way of talking, he also has to throw red meat to the base, right? And in that way, he`s doing it in the same way and talking about rolling back regulations, talking about tax cuts.

But again, I think you do have to give him credit there for trying to figure out how these sorts of conservative ideas relate to real people, and in that way, I think we are hearing something slightly new from him, and I think we`ll hear a lot from him over these next many months as he very much publicly in these speeches is trying to almost on his feet trying to grapple with this issue, what it means to be a new Republican.

WAGNER: Krystal, speaking of new Republicans, my favorite entry in the annals of hypocrisy today is Mike Lee, who had some interesting words at the very conference. Let us take a listen to what Mike Lee had to say.

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SEN. MIKE LEE (R), UTAH: As Republicans, an conservatives, we`ve got to be far more engaged in the act of finding converts than identifying heretics. We need to sharpen more pencils than knives.

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WAGNER: He`s saying we should not cannibalize our own. Mike Lee who has been the Robin to Ted Cruz`s Batman on so much heretics-finding in the Republican Party. I just think, you know, it comes down to platitudes and not policy and it`s as if Mike Lee thinks he can just say this and people will forget all of the things that he has done as an elected member of the U.S. Congress.

BALL: Right. Mike Lee being famous for essentially shutting down the government, as Ted Cruz`s sidekick over really a full hearty attempt to repeal Obamacare, which, of course, was never going to happen.

WAGNER: And made life difficult for his fellow Republicans.

BALL: Absolutely. Absolutely.

And something very interesting happened to Mike Lee, senator from Utah after he did that. His popularity in his own state fell off a cliff in one of the -- if not the most conservative state in the country. Even there they said this is too far. This is unreasonable. You are making the country ungovernable.

So, it`s interesting that he`s singing a very different tune now because I think the original tune that he was singing in trying to piggyback off Ted Cruz was not working out so well for him.

WAGNER: Sharpen more pencils than knives.

OK. Nia, now, this would be my second entry in the annals of hypocrisy this week, which are getting -- it`s going to be a big week apparently, for starting it out like this. "The A.P." is reporting something called the 14 in `14 campaign launched by the RNC to recruit and train women under the age of 40 to help spread the party`s message in the final 14 weeks of the campaign.

They are encouraging candidates to include their wives and daughters in campaign ads, have women at their events and build a Facebook-like internal database, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

This seems like one of those things Republicans do that is all talk and no actual action, if you are talking about substantive policy that will actually help women. You are -- give me your assessment on how successful you think something like this can be.

HENERSON: Well, they launched this, Sharon Day, the co-chair of the Republican Party, launched this today in West Virginia, a very important race there with Shelly Moore Capito probably going against Natalie Tennant on West Virginia for this open Senate seat. If you look at the Growth and Opportunity Project, which was released about a year ago which was the Republican reset, one of the things they wanted was to put more women out front, not only as candidates but as surrogates and that`s something that we are starting to see more of.

If you also look at where Democrats have had the edge, it`s not only with women, particularly single women, it`s also with sort of a volunteer army. So, this what the RNC very much wants to create with this 14 in `14 project that they announced.

And one of the things that they`re going to do is really try to go into blue areas in red states, right? In Arkansas, the big counties there that went for Obama. So, you know, I think, again, Republicans are very nervous about the war on women. They very much know that it worked against them and this is their attempt to push back them in terms of messaging.

But again, in terms of policy, I`ve talked to several women who were running, Mia Love, who`s running, of course, in Utah. Joni Ernst, who`s running in Iowa. You ask them, is there some specific sort of policy --

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WAGNER: Is there any there there?

HENDERSON: Right. Is there some sort of policy that you`re trying to talk to women about and they often say, well, our policies aren`t about women, they are about everyone. Of course, you counter that with what Democrats are doing and they are rolling out women`s economic agenda.

So, it`s very much different on both sides of the aisle.

WAGNER: It`s amazing to me, Krystal, very quickly, that Republicans are up in arms about the Paycheck Fairness Act and say it`s playing identity politics and they maligned Democrats. And this effort, which actually has no policy behind it, is not actually that same thing.

BALL: Yes, and I just want to point out that you think your wife or daughter in your campaign commercial is hardly a revolutionary idea, but I will tell you that red state Democrats, this is not just like a side issue for them. They also recognize how important it is to get women out and just how powerful equal pay and the Paycheck Fairness Act is.

This is not like a little hobby horse thing. This is actually a really important issue for Democrats in this election cycle.

WAGNER: And the Republican understands how unsuccessful they have been, thus far, in recruiting female candidates.

Krystal Ball and Nia-Malika Henderson, thank you both for joining me tonight.

BALL: Thanks, Alex.

HENDERSON: Thanks, Alex.

WAGNER: Coming up, what you hand over when there aren`t transcripts? Mental impressions. The latest on the Christie investigation is next.

And just ahead, the hate crime in the heartland. A white supremacist will be charge with hate crimes in the shooting deaths of three people.

And an exclusive look inside the world of the people who make cocaine and smuggle it into the U.S.

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WAGNER: And now an update on why I`m sitting here tonight bringing you THE LAST WORD instead of Lawrence. Lawrence and his brother Michael were hurt in a taxi accident on Saturday. They were vacationing in the Virgin Islands and were brought back by air ambulances to the U.S. for medical treatment. Michael is in Boston. Lawrence is here in New York. Both of the O`Donnell brothers are in good spirits, as always, and doctors expect them to make a full recovery.

Since the news was announced this afternoon, LAST WORD fans have been sending well wishes and asking where they can send flowers. I did, too, and we found out the hard way that we can`t. The hospital where Lawrence is being treated will not accept flowers of any kind. So, do not send roses because, friends, I think we all know the way to Lawrence O`Donnell`s heart and it is the KIND Fund.

Lawrence, if you are watching, I stole some chocolate off your desk. We all really miss you. Please get well soon and hurry back.

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WAGNER: Today, Chris Christie`s lawyers released notes from 75 interviews conducted as part of their taxpayer-funded investigation into what happened at the George Washington Bridge. These memos were for interviews that were not conducted under oath and did not include transcripts. According to the memos themselves, they are, quote, "a summary of the discussion that reflects counsel`s mental thoughts and impressions."

Among the 75 people whose recollections were filtered through mental thoughts and impressions, Governor Christie, Lieutenant Governor Kim Guadagno and Mike DuHaime.

Not on that list, David Wildstein, Bridget Kelly, Bill Stepien, David Samson, or any other Port Authority employee.

We have also learned that the governor`s troubles have now expanded into New York as Cyrus Vance, the district attorney for Manhattan, has issued subpoenas for documents and records between Christie staffers and Port Authority officials.

According to "The Wall Street Journal," that request is part of an investigation into Port Authority construction projects, including the rebuilding of the World Trade Center site. Today, Anthony Sartor, a long-time commissioner of the Port Authority, who was chair of the subcommittee in charge of the redevelopment of the World Trade Center, he submitted his resignation.

And if all that wasn`t enough, the New Jersey "Star Ledger" is reporting that three former officials with the New Jersey Ethics Commission are now accusing Governor Christie`s office of, quote, "unprecedented interference with an agency set up to be free of political influence." Christie, they say, pushed the agency commissioners to replace the executive director at a time when she was investigating a member of his staff and in so commission doing, Christie crossed a line no other governor had before."

Joining me now is Sal Rizzo who reported the story at the ethics commission complaints for the `New Jersey Star Ledger", and Josh Barro, a national correspondent for "The New York Times" and an MSNBC contributor.

Josh, let`s start with the Mastro memoranda, the impressions, the mental watercolors that have been painted for the viewing public.

According to Randy Mastro`s report, Christie had no specific recollections of conversations with Baroni and Wildstein, especially on the 11th -- the day in question -- when Wildstein said he talked to Chris Christie about bridgegate. But he remembers other things, including this, which defies explanation. I will read an excerpt from that memoranda.

Before the 9/11 memorial event began, the governor recalled that Mrs. Christie asked to use a bathroom and David Wildstein directed her to a large white Port Authority trailer. She went into the van and then exited saying that there was no bathroom in the trailer. A female Port Authority police department officer who was possibly Baroni`s driver, then took Mrs. Christie to the bathroom. Otherwise, Mrs. Christie was with the governor throughout the event.

Now, explain to me how you as a governor of the state don`t remember anything about a possible traffic jam that was inconveniencing tens of thousands of your own residents, but you do remember about your wife being guided to the wrong ladies` room?

JOSH BARRO, MSNBC CONTRIBUTOR: I think the details on where Mrs. Christie went to the restroom on September 11th are really important thing, that it`s good that the taxpayers of New Jersey pay probably a couple thousand dollars of legal fees --

WAGNER: Just for that detail.

BARRO: Just for that detail.

I mean, this report is so weird. Like you conduct an investigation like this, where you do all of these interviews and don`t keep transcripts or recordings of the interviews, it`s hard to think of any reason to do that other than you don`t want people to come into possession of those transcripts of the interviews and use them in their own investigations.

So, it`s another thing that points to this report, having been basically a political act trying to put forward Chris Christie`s versions of events in the story and I don`t think that was a good use of taxpayer money but I also don`t think it was effective.

This report hasn`t been received in the way that I think the governor`s office was hoping that it would as an authoritative account of what happened leading up to the bridge lane closing.

WAGNER: Yes. Sal, josh makes a really good point. This is supposed to be the great vindication tour for Chris Christie. And yet in this report, it`s clear that the specifics and the vagaries are very purposeful and both intended on giving the governor as much wiggle room or as much leeway as possible.

I read one other excerpt: The governor did not recall any conversations at all that the senior staff retreat about the Rockefeller group and did not recall any conversations with the lieutenant governor about Mayor Zimmer at the senior staff retreat. Nor did the governor recall any conversation with the lieutenant governor about Mayor Zimmer`s May 1st of last year.

I mean, that does not exactly, I think, signal -- I don`t think New Jersey taxpayers would give that report a vote of confidence, if you will.

SAL RIZZO, THE STAR-LEDGER: The standard caveat is that this is the governor`s lawyer writing this report. So, if it comes to pass that the U.S. attorney considers the governor`s office to be a target of the criminal investigation, what is the governor going to do? You know, is he going to report stuff that could incriminate the governor`s office?

There`s a very fundamental question about the purpose of this report. And, you know, I think you guys have laid it out well. Some of these details seem to be a little irrelevant and some of them seem to be, you know, furthering the story that is very convenient and very practical for the governor to be using right now.

WAGNER: You know, and, Josh, it feels like the investigations continue to mushroom. The fact that Cyrus Vance has gotten involved, that New York prosecutors are now engaged in this, I think continues to raise the stakes for the Christie administration in a really meaningful way.

BARRO: Yes. Well, who doesn`t want a piece of this?

WAGNER: Who can`t get a piece of this? I mean, there are myriad entry points.

BARRO: Yes. No, I mean, it`s when you have a bi-state agency like this and you`re dealing literally with a crossing that is in the jurisdiction of two different states, there are a lot of prosecuting officials who can get involved in something high profile. Chris Christie knows about this. He built his political reputation by being an aggressive prosecutor who knew how to find investigations that would people pay attention to and that would raise his own profile.

So I`m not surprised that you`re seeing New York getting involved in this and I think it also reflects how the governor`s office has been a step behind in responding to this scandal. They didn`t appreciate the legs that it would have.

The fundamental reason that people are interested in this story nationally is that it`s so simple. It`s not that a few lane closures was of immense national importance. It says it`s a scandal that anybody can understand and it says something quite specific about the way that the governor had managed the state of New Jersey that I think is compelling to people. And so, it`s going to have legs and people are going to get involved where they can.

So, yes, you`re going to see mushrooming.

WAGNER: Hey, Sal, you broke the news about the ethics committee investigation. You broke it in the pages of the "Star Ledger" and online. Tell us more about specifically what went down there and what the implications are for this administration.

RIZZO: Well, first of all, this is a very powerful agency because they have subpoena power. It`s like a court of law. And they can find people tens and thousands of dollars if they find that they have done something very egregious as far as the conflict of interest goes.

And so, the accusation is very serious that the executive director of the agency, Kathleen Wiechnik, she had opened an investigation into a member of the governor`s staff back in November 2010. It was something about feral cats, apparently a secretary in the governor`s office had been using her state e-mail account to press some county officials to look into feral cats that had popped up on her property.

So, this is how it all began. Then a couple weeks later after Kathleen Wiechnik, the director, tells the governor`s office that she`s investigating this matter, she gets someone to a meeting in Trenton just a couple weeks later and she`s told you have to step down. We have to replace you.

And now, you know, this is an independent agency. For something like this to happen, what is the message that someone would get, you shouldn`t be investigating the governor`s office? You should turn over the complaint if the governor`s office asks you?

And so, you know, the chairman says I made a decision to replace Kathleen Wiechnik before this was filed but it was still during the time that this investigation was opened that she was replaced.

WAGNER: Feral cats and port-a-potties. This is now what we`re being forced to talk about. Thank you, Governor Christie.

Sal Rizzo and Josh Barro, thanks for your time tonight, gentlemen.

RIZZO: Thank you, Alex.

BARRO: Thanks.

WAGNER: Coming up, a known white supremacist now faces hate crime charges for the shooting deaths of three people.

And later, a last-minute surprise from President Obama.

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WAGNER: In the spotlight tonight, a hate crime in the heartland.

Federal authorities say they have enough evidence to treat yesterday`s shooting spree at a Jewish community center and Jewish retirement home outside of Kansas City and the hate crime.

State officials have already filed first degree murder charges. Police arrested 73-year-old Frazier Glenn Cross, also known as Glenn Miller, a former green beret and Ku Klux Klan leader. He reported shouted Heil Hitler as he was arrested.

NBCnews.com reports in the name of white supremacy, Frazier Glenn Cross has organized armed militias, stockpiled military weapons and plotted to kill the founder of the southern poverty law center which sued him in 1984 for trying to intimidate blacks in North Carolina.

This morning at the Easter prayer breakfast, President Obama spoke to the timing of this tragedy.

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BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: That this occurred now as Jews were preparing to celebrate Passover, as Christians were observing palm Sunday, makes this tragedy all the more painful. Nobody should have to worry about their security when gathering with their fellow believers. Nobody should have to fear for their safety when they go to pray.

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WAGNER: Three people were killed in the shooting spree. Dr. William Lewis Corporon and his grandson, 14-year-old, Reat Griffin Underwood were killed at the community center. Dr. Corporon was a retired family physician. His grandson an eagle scout. The third victim, Terry Lamano was killed at the nearby retirement home where she visited her mother every Sunday.

While slain outside of Jewish facilities according to their families, all three victims were members of Christian denominations.

Joining me now is Mark Potok, senior fellow at the Southern Poverty Law Center and Jim Cavanaugh, MSNBC law enforcement analyst. He is also a former police officer and ATF special agent.

Mark, let me begin with you. The Southern Poverty Law Center has had Mr. Cross on its radar for quite some time now, but reports today indicate that he may have been sort of estranged from his white supremacist networks. How common is it to have a lone Wolf extremist?

MARK POTOK, SENIOR FELLOW, SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER: Well, lone Wolfs are really the most common type of attackers we see from the domestic radical right. There was a time when conspiracies really were hatched in smoky rooms with lots of men in them and that kind of thing, but that is very much not true these days. Some 20 years ago or so there was an important essay called "leader less resistance" on that very idea, that we need to operate as lone wolves who are in very small cells because otherwise our organizations will be destroyed. So that is really what we see as the norm and it does appear that Frazier Glenn Miller, aka Frazier Glenn Cross, did act as a lone wolf in this case.

WAGNER: Jim, let me ask you, how much of his history do federal authorities need to consider in building the case for a hate crime?

JIM CAVANAUGH, MSNBC LAW ENFORCEMENT ANALYST: You know, that`s a great question, Alex, and it really is an easy answer. All of it. You know, you have free speech and you`re free to hate and the government shouldn`t and can`t do anything to you for that. But when you hurt, when you murder, when you assault, when you kill, then everything you have ever said, every one of these vial, despicable videos that this guy has made, his internet postings, videotapes, speeches, every single one of those for his whole life can be used to show his motivation.

And so, really, this is going to be solid evidence for a hate crime and it`s bracketed by the fact that he`s yelling Heil Hitler after the murders of the eagle scout and the grandfather and the woman and the retirement home.

Again, you know, the same thing we get from the Klan, we`ve gotten it for 40 years, mark and all the heroes at the Southern Poverty Laws Center know it and we chase these guys all over the country. This guy is not new to any of us. The FBI got him with 20 pipe bombs years ago. He`s always been into this stuff.

WAGNER: Mark, you know, There is a videotape of Cross in 2005 being interviewed by NBC affiliate KYTV and I want to play that for everybody just as so we can see the level of vitriol that he was spewing in public for decades. Take a listen.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We`re fed up by it, people, believe me, and we`re going to take our country back. They are third class citizens now.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE REPORTER: Do you worry about defending people?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Of course not. They need to know. They need to educating.

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WAGNER: Mark, when someone is out there making death threats, training paramilitary group, speaking so plainly about racist hatred, what can anyone actually do to sort of monitor and sort of -- and do whatever -- what systems are available to try and stop someone like this from taking the next step?

POTOK: Well, there`s really not a whole lot that can be done in many senses. Most -- almost everything that Glenn Miller says is protected by the first amendment. It`s only now, when he`s apparently committed a major criminal act, that as Jim says, these matters about his ideology can be brought in.

Really, properly the best chance to stop Miller came many years ago in 1987 when he in fact was arrested for, among other things, conspiring to murder Morris Dees (ph). He was probably looking at 20, maybe even 30 years in prison but what he did was cut a deal with the federal government to testify against his friends in the white supremacist movement.

He was a key witness in a very famous crowd, the 1988 court Smith sedition trial which basically had a parade of the best known rights supremacist leaders in the country on trial. And Miller in fact did testify against them.

What happened, though, was that the case fell apart. It was a disaster for the government. It could have hardly have ended in a worst way. Nobody was convicted for anything at all. A juror actually ended up marrying one of the defendants. So it was a train wreck. And perhaps Miller managed to salvage a little bit of his reputation in that way. I mean, for a long time he was essentially persona non grata but he`s made his way into the movement, publishing and posting thousands and thousands of times to racist websites and so on.

WAGNER: Mark Potok and Jim Cavanaugh, thank you both for joining me tonight.

CAVANAUGH: Thank you, Alex.

POTOK: Thank you.

WAGNER: Coming up, as the U.S. shifts its attention and funds in the war on drugs, cartels in Colombia shift their methods to keep the drugs flowing into the United States. A rare look at the making of cocaine is just ahead.

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GEORGE W. BUSH, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Former presidents compare their libraries the way other men may compare their -- well.

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WAGNER: That was president George W. Bush speaking at the LBJ library last week because right now below the belt humor is all the rage in the Republican Party. House speaker John Boehner`s primary opponent, tea partier J.D. Winter egg, a high school teacher, is out with a new political ad that proves J.D. Winter egg spent most of his days surrounded by people with raging hormones.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You make a great team. It`s been that way since the day you met. But your erectile dysfunction, it could be a question of blood flow. Sometimes when a politician has been in D.C. too long, it goes to his head and it just can`t seem to get the job done. Used on a daily basis, Winter Egg in Congress will help you every time the moment is right to have your voice be heard at the federal level.

When using winter egg, it`s important to know that the borders will be secured, second amendment rights protected, Obamacare and planned parenthood will be defunded and commonsense will be used in solving the nation`s problems. Other signs of erectile dysfunction may include extremes skin discoloration, the inability to punch oneself out of the wet paper bag or maintain a spine, (INAUDIBLE) smoking.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And golf.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: If you have a Boehner last longer than 23 years, seek immediate medical attention, Winteregg. Because Boehner shouldn`t count as chickens before they hatch.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I`m J.D. Winteregg and I approve this message but I don`t golf.

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WAGNER: Winteregg has virtually no chance of winning. John Boehner won his 2012 primary election with 84 percent of the vote. But that doesn`t JD Winteregg can`t class up the joint in the meantime.

Up next, the U.S. continues to lock up millions of Americans on drug charges but the drugs themselves are still flowing. We will show you the inside of a cocaine manufacturing house, next.

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WAGNER: Maryland governor Martin O`Malley signed a bill today decriminalizing small amount of marijuana possession in his state. Senate bill 364, reduces the penalty for possessing less than ten grams of marijuana from a criminal to a civil offense punishable by fines. Just last week "the Washington Post" reported that a decriminalization of marijuana in an increasing number of states has caused wholesale prices of marijuana to drop so far that cartels are now abandoning the plant to grow the more profitable one, the opium poppy.

The U.S. has also helped to put a dent in Colombia`s cocaine industry, giving billions over the last decade to the Colombian military to fight the Narco traffickers. In 2012 alone, Colombian authorities destroyed 2356 labs. But as in Mexico, Columbia`s cocaine producers are finding more creative ways to keep the drug industry alive, moving out of the huge plants in the jungle and into disposable urban labs.

TOBY MUSE, REPORTER (voice-over): Cocaine exports account for roughly 2.5 percent of Columbia`s GDP. And while authorities have made the series den in Columbia`s cocaine industry, producers and traffickers of the drug are finding ever more creative ways to keep this $8 billion business thriving. So, who is really winning the so-called war on drugs? I wanted to see the cocaine industry up close to find out what people who produce and traffic the drug really think.

I reached out to some sources and I eventually found a senior cartel boss who gave me the green light to film. First off is an urban cocaine lab. When the day came, it turned out to be a little more complicated than I imagined. I got into a taxi with an escort from the cartel that quickly blindfolded me to hide the location of the cocaine lab.

The cartel man asked a lost questions, making sure that I wasn`t an undercover cop. During the long drive I had a lot of time to think about who exactly I was trusting my life to. Colombia`s cartel has a track record of killing anyone who gets in their way. I was relieved when the blindfold came off and I was in the lab.

I started filming. In a sweltering room, two men labored away at making cocaine. They work directly for the Colombia cocaine cartel. The purpose of making cocaine is really just a matter of chemistry. Naturally growing coco leaves are mixed with lime. This activates the alkaloid from the leaves. Then kerosene of water are added.

The mix of kerosene and alkaloid from the leaves is siphoned off. Sulfuric acid and sodium carbonate are also added. This mix is put into a microwave oven creating a paste. The microwaves are working so much it often causes the house to lose its electricity. Mix in a little hydrochloric acid and (INAUDIBLE) and you have what is called pure cocaine.

These small urban labs are the latest shift in Colombia`s cocaine industry. Previously there were huge labs operating in the jungle where the leaves are harvested, but these labs were easy to detect and vulnerable to being raided so the industry is decentralizing with smaller more disposable labs propping up.

I`m following the trial of the products from the lab. This cocaine will be sold inside Colombia. I meet with the local dealer who also happens to be a transvestite.

But the world`s demand for the drug also has to be met. I`m on my way to meet a trafficker who works by himself outside of the cartel system.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): It`s sent to Europe but more commonly to the USA. That`s the biggest market. Lots of consumption and the cost is high. Also, it`s easier to enter America.

MUSE: He ships pure cocaine in a liquid form. He gives me a demonstration of how to turn the liquid into powder. Traffickers use liquid cocaine because it can be hidden in a variety of ways. From mixing it other liquids to soaking pieces of clothing so the drug seeps into the threads. The clothing is then shipped. When it reaches its destination abroad, the cocaine is extracted from the clothing using the same method that you see here. He`s got other methods if the police crackdown on this one.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): The business is always evolving, just like the police are. Traffickers used to use the old methods but now liquid is the way to go. You can`t just have one method.

MUSE: Once the liquid is transformed into powder, the result is pure cocaine. He doesn`t believe the war on drugs can ever be won.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): To talk about legalization would be devastating. It would end the business. Now you can earn so much. Legalization would be terrible.

MUSE: He says some day he would like to get out of the business. But that day is a long way off.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): In 20 years time I`m going to get away from this business, but not quite yet. I want more.

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WAGNER: That was Toby Muse reporting for our partners Advocatives.

Coming up, at this morning`s prayer breakfast, there was a surprise guest who gave the closing prayer.

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OBAMA: I think it`s fair to say that those of us of the Christian faith regardless of our domination have been touched and moved by Pope Francis. Now, some of it is his words, his message of justice of inclusion, especially for the poor and the outcast. He implores us to see the inherent dignity in each human being.

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WAGNER: That was President Obama at the White House this morning addressing 150 Christian leaders at the fifth annual Easter prayer breakfast. After speaking about the importance of faith, justice, and inclusion, President Obama surprised Bishop Gene Robinson, the country`s first openly gay bishop and asked him to come and deliver the event`s closing prayer.

Bishop Robinson who retired as a bishop of the Episcopal diocese of New Hampshire tweeted, podiums preaches at the Easter prayer breakfast, then, out of the blue asked me to close with prayer. OMG.

Joining me now is Bishop Gene Robinson who is also a senior fellow the Center for American Progress.

Bishop, thanks for joining us. There were no cameras, unfortunately, to catch that prayer. So tell us, if you will, what that moment was like for you and what you said in that closing prayer.

BISHOP GENE ROBINSON, SENIOR FELLOW, CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS: I`m kind of glad there weren`t cameras. I`m not sure how I would want to see it. The OMG was actually a prayer for help.

You know, I did what I always try to do in prayer, which is to ask God`s blessing on all of God`s children worldwide. I asked a special blessing on this nation and our president. And also since you mentioned Pope Francis, I always pray for the poor and the oppressed and the marginalized. I think God cares especially about them.

And to be quite honest with you, I can`t remember all of what I said because I had no time to prepare for it.

WAGNER: And perhaps it was better that way. You had divine intervention.

Bishop Robinson, you know, you talk about Pope Francis, the president himself has made huge strides on this issue. Pope Francis has in many ways opened up a new chapter for Catholics around the world.

How optimistic are you that the catholic church and broadly the Christian church in general is getting closer to opening its doors truly and meaningfully to the LBGT community?

ROBINSON: I think it`s taken on an era of inevitability. You know, we see such change in the culture. I mean, President Obama`s evolution on this topic is really a reflection of what has happened all across the nation, across every demographic group and certainly among young people, they just don`t know what the big deal is and I think we will see even the more conservative religious groups understanding that the love that two people share, one for another, is of God and the gender of those people is not the important thing, it`s the love and the relationship and that`s what really makes sense.

WAGNER: Let me ask you very quickly before we go, the Pope has made this last week the strongest condemnation of any Pope on sexual abuse within the clergies that I feel compelled to personally take on all of the evil which some priests -- not all of them and ask for forgiveness for the damage they have done. Do you think this is the beginning of a reconciliation period?

ROBINSON: Well, I hope so. You know what, every victim of abuse, be it children or adult wants to hear, I am so sorry, this should never have happened to you and to hear the church and the Pope himself take some responsibility for that and to say how sorry he is, I think it`s the first step. There are many other steps to be taken, to make sure that all of our churches are safe but it`s a beginning.

WAGNER: Bishop Gene Robinson gets the "Last Word."

Congratulations! I am Alex Wagner, in again for Lawrence O`Donnell. You can catch my show "Now" Monday through Friday at 4:00 p.m. eastern --

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